Describing his journey in boxing as a
“crazy ten years”, David Rajuili has
just recently fought and won his first
professional fight. “This moment has been
a long time coming” David explains with a
wide smile on his face. David has boxed
at many gyms with many trainers but has
now found his footing with former pro
Rupert Van Aswegen.

David quickly expresses what it felt like
to finally enter the ring as a pro, “I got
sick of telling people my fight is coming, its
coming. To finally get into that ring was my
life’s dream”. David had waited two years
for this fight after acquiring his licence in
2010, struggling to find fights as many
boxers do. A unanimous point’s decision
set David’s record at 1-0-0, the four round
bout proved to be fast paced and after
landing a number of solid punches his
opponent Moeketsi Makinta looked beat. As
his hand was lifted in victory, thrilled fans
jumped from their seats to congratulate
David who has clearly garnered a great
deal of support, especially in the South.

The bantamweight, also known as O.G.,
has dreams of making it overseas in the
next two years but says he will take it slow
and let his team decide what’s best. David
refers to his “team” a lot, they are a group
of people he feels a great deal of gratitude
towards and is made up of his Coach
Rupert, Tyrone and Ana Rightford, Warren
Evans and his loyal supporters.

“Tyrone and Ana have really helped me
a lot, Tyrone took me to Rupert’s gym and
when I wanted to give up on boxing Ana
helped me stay on track.

When asked what got him started in
boxing, he refers me to well-known South
African boxing hero Brian Mitchell. David’s
late mother Caroline told him to watch
his story and from there David knew he
wanted to box. “Seeing what Brian went
through in those days made me want to make boxing my life”. David started boxing
with Anton Gilmore but most of his training
and amateur career was carried out at the
Lovett’s gym in the South. Boxing has
always been a constant in David’s life and
he hopes to have at least five more pro
fights in the next year.

The 23-year-old is all over social
network Facebook promoting himself and
his fights, “I want to get out there; I want
everyone to know who David Rajuili is” His
hunger to fight and win is unmistakable,
but David also wants people to get excited
about boxing again, “I want people to love
boxing like I do, to entertain fans and sell
out arenas. Get people interested in the sport again”.

David’s next fight will be later this year
and sponsor’s Tyron and Warren enthuse
about how hard David trains. Tyron laughs
as he says “If Dave could he’d sleep in the
gym”. Finally I ask David who his favourite
fighter is right now, Mayweather? A
Klitschko brother? He replies with a cheeky
grin “David Rajuili of course”.

David would like to thank his sponsors
Tyrone and Ana Rightford as well as Warren
Evans from Torinos Restaurant. Visit his
Facebook fan page to keep updated on
future fights.